From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 13 06:01:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C669A16A4DD for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:01:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69A6D43D45 for ; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:01:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F4785E20; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:01:37 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Ua7qEdOaC4RG; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:01:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.251] (pool-68-161-117-245.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.117.245]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BF4F5DBA; Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:01:36 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44B5E1B5.2010600@mac.com> Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:01:25 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" References: <50F15D66-0E50-4EE8-BCEC-67688B08FBB2@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <50F15D66-0E50-4EE8-BCEC-67688B08FBB2@shire.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: mac mini (intel)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:01:38 -0000 Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > A day or three ago someone posted about having 6.1-CURRENT (I believe) > run on a MacBook laptop. > > Does anyone have it running on a Mac Mini (intel)? I might be > interested in getting a couple to handle email services to nfs mounted > mail stores. I like their small size and ability to stick several of > them in my racks without really taking much room. (We are short of rack > space at the moment for many new servers). Does FreeBSD 6.x actually boot on the hardware of these Macs yet? (They're using EFI, not the classic PC BIOS.) Anyway, their size is nice, but both the PPC and Intel Minis use rather pokey 5400 RPM laptop drives, so their I/O performance is mediocre. They'd make better candidates for CPU/memory-bound tasks. Also, it's no fun at all to take them apart to swap in a new drive or more memory. -- -Chuck